GENEVA (3 June 2020) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet expressed alarm at the clampdown on freedom of expression in parts of the Asia-Pacific during the COVID-19 crisis,...
Geneva- Today, the Secretary-General has urged that global efforts to manage the COVID-19 crisis will depend upon public health responses and a comprehensive recovery that include all people. The...
GENEVA (2 June 2020) – Rising disparities in how COVID-19 is affecting communities, and the major disproportionate impact it is having on racial and ethnic minorities, including people of African...
Against the backdrop of COVID-19, recalling the 2012 Joint Statement on compulsory drug detention and rehabilitation centres1 and the 2020 Joint Statement on COVID-19 in prisons and other closed...
COVID-19: Governments must protect the rights of migrants during the pandemic and beyond, UN experts urge GENEVA (26 May 2020) - UN human rights experts today called on States to protect the rights...
Iraq: UN details ordeal of abducted protesters, welcomes Government’s promise to investigate and compensate BAGHDAD (23 May 2020) – A United Nations report published today on the abduction of...
GENEVA (22 May 2020) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has condemned a new outbreak of intercommunal violence in South Sudan that has reportedly left hundreds dead according...
GENÈVE (19 mai 2020) – la Haute-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l'homme Michelle Bachelet a salué l'arrestation le 16 mai à Paris de Félicien Kabuga, accusé d'avoir joué un rôle central...
GENÈVE (20 mai 2020) - Les chefs des droits de l'homme des Nations Unies et de la Commission africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples ont averti aujourd'hui que des dizaines de millions de...
GENEVA (20 May 2020) – Human rights chiefs from the United Nations and the African Commission today warned that tens of millions may become destitute in Africa as a result of COVID-19 and its...